Should Donal Murray resign to protect children from sex abusing Roman Catholic priests and bishops?

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Some of the answers on here great & Orla gave a great one...I think that all paedophiles should be hanged, end of, as they are the sickest of minds & are just disgusting & they will never change. The law is too easy on them all.....they are sick & twisted & do not deserve to be kept in jail, once there is sufficient evidence hang them...

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Hanging is too good for them but it cuts down on prison expenses.

Answer 2

Yes. It shouldn't be a matter of resignation he should be kicked out along with hundreds of others who committed the horrific crimes of coverup and abuse. The so called government of this pathetic state should be in a higher position than a church and should be controlling it. What are they doing about it!?

To give the matter over to the congregation to decide is a joke its mainly older people who've been brain washed since aged 0 by the religion and church and probably would keep such a person in power.

Heres hoping they have a mind and morals of their own.

Answer 3

For non-Irish folk, Donal Murray is the Bishop of Limerick.

I answered a similar question more fully here: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind…

Any resignation should be between Bishop Donal and his Confessor and Cardinal to decide, as to whether his position in untenable.

I doubt it will solve the problem. Handing the whole thing over to the secular powers is a dereliction of duty, and creates an even worse situation by those nasty minded loveless Godless witch hunters so admired by the tabloids and tabloid-minded haters in society. God protect us from zealous social workers and their apologists in secular Government!

It is for the Catholic Church to get its own house in order, according to its own principles. The guiding force should be Love, not hate nor shame, but Love. Unless it is seen to be this, then it has lost my respect and those countless others like me. It seems the Irish Church (in contrast to the church in France) is only interested in shame, and has an almost puritan aversion to love. I doubt if there was any love in the hearts of those priests as they fondled their way through their charges.

Are the punch-drunk clerics in a fit state to think clearly right now? Perhaps a modicum of humility is in order, and die-hard priests should at least listen to what their lay philosophers have to offer.

There should now be a Papal conference to discuss the matter of the compulsory celibacy of the priesthood, which I believe should be abolished. By all means push celibacy as hard as they like, but as St. Paul said - it is better to be married than to be tortured by uncontrollable sexual urges, and priests are no less vulnerable to temptation than any of us.

Edit - I spent a lot of time and thought answering three questions on this subject from Goat, finding that two of them have already been deleted, along with my answers.

Does anyone have copies of them? Firefox in its wisdom has already removed them from my cache, and I can't get them back.

Very upset.

Answer 4

People seem to forget that the greatest number of sexual abusers of children are the children's own family members.

Yes, there are priests and nuns who have sexually abused children and adults incapable of protecting themselves, and who should have been punished appropriately. The fact is that sexual predators in general are not sufficiently punished.

I read recently that a Saudi man who sexually abused children in Saudi Arabia was executed for doing this. I think that the Saudis have the right idea, myself. But the danger is always in the fact that most sexual abuse is so hidden that no-one outside of a family or community knows it's going on, and for a child that loves a parent that sexually abuses them, there would be even more pressure on that child to keep the dirty and corrosive secret - because Mum or Dad could be executed if they don't.

Expose them and shame them, and shame those in power who let them away with it.

Answer 5

Donal Murray resigning will do nothing to protect children, the damage is done. I totally agree with what Orla C has said. Child abusers are in our midst and are not punished, yes its easy to blame the Catholic church and the Gards but a lot of families are as guilty.

There was a guy on the news yesterday, found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl 9 years ago, dragged her into his car. He has been sentenced to 4 years I think but the judge was waiting to decide if he should be allowed to spend Christmas at home with his "ailing" mother. What a load of bollocks, he should go down the steps immediately, he didn't think about how upset his mother would be when he assaulted the poor girl did he? The judges in this country are a disgrace and the law is an @ss, there is no deterent.

Answer 6

I believe sex offenders should be put away for the rest of their lives. Hanging someone "well thats not the catholic way" remember.......thou shalt not kill??

I also believe the thousands of catholicpriests/ bishops/cardinals right across the USA and around the world who LIED/COVERED UP and obstructed justice of serious felony crimes by clerics that often occured multiple times should also be in jail. These are the same guys that give themselves holy communion everytime they say mass. UNBELIEVABLE! Lieing bastards! 195 dioceses in the USA and predators and lieing clergy in each one, just gives an indication the magitude of this problem. Catholics show a little regret but very little compassion and remorse for the victims. Catholics disgust me and are always the ones to deflect the issue at hand by stating "teachers, boy scout leaders, or middle eastern men, protestants etc.........they are molesting to. Big difference. The catholic organization right from the pope on down covered up these despicable crimes. The vatican should be investigated.

I can't believe catholics aren't outraged with what is going on in their church. These are the hard working people who fill the collection plates only to have the money go to pay for the sins of the fathers. 7 catholic dioceses in the USA have filed for bankruptcy in the past 3 years. I am outraged and I was raised a catholic back in the 50s. I am now non religious and a better person for it ELM BEARD.

Now the hard working nuns in america are under two investigations by the vatican.

Recent polls & surveys indicate up to 20% of supposed celebate catholic priests in the USA are sexually active with women. Most catholics indicate that they don't follow the churches teachings on regular sunday mass attendance, contraceptives, divorce and almost as many catholics are pro choice abortion as the general population. Why would anyone today want to belong to an organization that is in total chaos.


Yes, yes.......lets have secular people investigate the catholic church, unbiased people who are honest and hard working........the catholic church has failed at their duties of protecting our children. Who knows what other secrets the church keeps. I am sure there are many.... Shame on them